Favorite (Linux) software?

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matt3o
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12 Jun 2014, 21:07

Spin off of the windows version

Please NO Desktop Environment, Window Manager, Desktop Manager.

just a few that come to my mind

- pidgin
- audacity
- blender
- draftsight
- aseprite
- inkscape
- pidgin
- handbrake
- transmission
- webstorm
- VLC
- Sublime Text

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scottc

12 Jun 2014, 21:17

vim 8-)

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ne0phyte
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12 Jun 2014, 21:44

I think those are my most used ones:
- vim
- tmux (terminal multiplexer)
- ranger (file manager)
- chromium
- irssi (irc)
- zathura (pdf reader)
- dmenu (launcher)
- git, gcc, make
- find, grep, ls, cd, kill, ps, cat, netcat, touch/mkdir/cp/mv/rm/rmdir, wc, hexdump, tar
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scottc

12 Jun 2014, 21:49

I'll just borrow your list, minus a few:
ne0phyte wrote:I think those are my most used ones:
- vim
- tmux (terminal multiplexer)
- ranger (file manager)
- chromium

- irssi (irc)
- zathura (pdf reader)
- dmenu (launcher)

- git, gcc, make
- find, grep, ls, cat, netcat, cp/mv/rm, wc, hexdump, tar

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ne0phyte
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12 Jun 2014, 21:49

Aww. I just added touch, mkdir and rmdir like a second ago :D

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Muirium
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12 Jun 2014, 21:53

We're going low level, I see! What, no love for cd? I like file, myself, is that in the Linux side of the Unix family tree, too?
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ne0phyte
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12 Jun 2014, 21:54

How could I miss that lol. It feels so natural that I didn't even think of it haha :mrgreen:

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Icarium

12 Jun 2014, 22:09

vim, emacs
oh yeah bitches :p

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Muirium
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12 Jun 2014, 22:15

Transmission's a good one. You know, for, um, "downloading .iso distros". I remember when it was just a Mac client, and always on the banned list at various trackers. Come a long way over the years.

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Icarium

12 Jun 2014, 22:21

We should probably share not-so-obvious things.
So: fdupes is hands down the best tool for finding duplicate files. There are tons of programs but not one other works reliably. I know this because I recently cleaned up some old drives with this.

JBert

12 Jun 2014, 22:53

Hmm, I tend to use a lot of software which is multi-platform, but here it goes:

- Vim
- Zsh
- wxHexEditor
- Kupfer (Launchy alternative, though nearly unmaintained)
- git cola
- guake or tilda, depending on what I fancy at some point.
- Clementine (GTK alternative for Amarok)
- DoubleCmd
- qBittorrent
- ELinks

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wheybags

12 Jun 2014, 23:16

cmake - best build system evar (srsly though, an order of magnitude better than the cancer that is autotools, and raw makefiles are... well)

also, y no wm ;_;
But yeah, also irssi, and +1 to tmux, git and vim

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Hypersphere

12 Jun 2014, 23:26

ChemAxon Suite
Crossover/Wine
Cytoscape
Dropbox
Gedit
Gimp
GLChess
GOLD Suite
ImageViewer
LibreOffice
Mathematica
Matlab
MOE
Mendeley
Nano
OpenEye Suite
R
Rstudio
Stata/SE
Synergy
VMware Workstation
YASARA Suite

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SL89

12 Jun 2014, 23:56

vim
chromium with vimium
zim
transmission but i am liking deluge so far
libreoffice
bittorrent sync
clementine
Konversation
pidgin
vlc

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matt3o
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13 Jun 2014, 00:11

imagemagick, I really couldn't live without it. optipng is also a good one.

of course node.js and rsync.

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wheybags

13 Jun 2014, 01:20

plz no js ;_;
plz noooo

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Muirium
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13 Jun 2014, 02:25

The cool kids are all on Node. Before that it was Rails. It ain't in fashion until it's down to a one-word name. The shorter and less descriptive the better.

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matt3o
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13 Jun 2014, 08:33

apart from the fact that Rails sucks of course

PS: what's wrong with JS?

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Mrinterface

13 Jun 2014, 08:48

vim

tmux

pushd/popd

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wheybags

13 Jun 2014, 12:21

matt3o wrote:apart from the fact that Rails sucks of course

PS: what's wrong with JS?
Js is an absolute mess ;_;
The whole thing is so inconsistent - maybe you can not put a semicolon here, maybe not it depends lol
The object syntax feels even more tacked on than c++
Callbacksfor FUCKING EVERYTHING even when I actually really want to just goddamn block

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matt3o
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13 Jun 2014, 12:44

reminds me of binary code developers arguing about assembly and assembly developers arguing about C and C developers...

but yeah I mostly agree.

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Muirium
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13 Jun 2014, 12:50

Sounds like the mainstream Linux user to me…

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matt3o
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13 Jun 2014, 13:19

it just happened with Apple's Swift, developers are lazy, they want to use the same code and the same language forever.

DerpyDash_xAD

13 Jun 2014, 13:26

tmux, pacman, ttytter, irssi, zsh, ranger and elinks

I love eLinks and tmux soo much, I only wish for tmux graphical interface ;)

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wheybags

13 Jun 2014, 14:10

People actually use elinks? O.o

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Muirium
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13 Jun 2014, 14:20


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wheybags

13 Jun 2014, 14:33

http://mosh.mit.edu/ is amazing btw, like ssh but uses udp and is optimised for a shit connection.
No more typing lag - it local echoes characters underlined immediately when you type them, and the underscores disappear as it arrives at the server.

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Icarium

13 Jun 2014, 15:25

wheybags wrote:http://mosh.mit.edu/ is amazing btw, like ssh but uses udp and is optimised for a shit connection.
No more typing lag - it local echoes characters underlined immediately when you type them, and the underscores disappear as it arrives at the server.
That seems dangerous.

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SL89

13 Jun 2014, 15:33


Lynx yes!

Chrishas

13 Jun 2014, 20:36

dwb browser
vim

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